With the city becoming a tourist destination for its popular year-round community events, it’s becoming harder for visitors to find a close place to stay.

According to Andy Haussler, Director of Community and Economic Development for City of Clovis, a healthy occupancy rate for hotels in Clovis is around 60 percent. However, the current occupancy rate runs closer to 90 percent – the highest occupancy rate in the Central Valley.

To lower that number and accommodate more visitors, multiple hotels are on the way, including a three story, 114-room Marriott TownePlace Suites hotel at Shaw and Helm avenues between Holiday Inn Express and Hilton Garden Inn. With the shell of the building done, it will be at least another six months before it is completed, said Haussler.

Other Clovis hotels in the works include a three-story, 80-room La Quinta Inn on Clovis Avenue next to The Barnyard Shopping Center and a Home2 Suites by Hilton, one block south of Sierra Vista Mall at Clovis and Gettysburg.

Shawn Miller, the city’s Business Development Manager, told the Roundup in November of a fourth hotel planning to locate on the south side of Shaw Avenue next to Sunnyside, east of Sierra Vista Mall, and several are currently exploring sites near Clovis Community Medical Center. Hotels have also expressed interest in the vacant area south of In-N-Out Burger on Clovis Avenue.

Costco, the membership-only warehouse club, has plans to move up the road from its cramped Ashlan location to a new site on Shaw and Clovis avenues.

“They have a desire for a larger warehouse to serve our community,” said Haussler.

The new warehouse would be built on a vacant lot west of Sierra Vista Mall. However, before Costco can make the move, it must receive approval from the Clovis Planning Commission for tire and automotive fuel sales – a decision that will come this spring.

Costco’s current Clovis warehouse is about 96,000 square feet. The new one will see a significant expansion as it aims to increase to approximately 150,00 square feet, about the same size as the one in Fresno’s River Park area.

If the Planning Commission approves the move, Costco members will be looking at a couple years until the new one is built.

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